Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is CORRECT concerning a change management plan?

1. It should include a method for controlling schedule
2. It is better if it focuses on cost
3. It is better if it concentrates on risk
4. It should be created during the executing process group.

Q3. An activity has been delayed and the project manager needs to deal with the situation. What is the NEXT thing she should do?

1. Determine how much of a problem it is.
2. Report to management
3. Crash or fast track
4. Use contingency reserves

Q4. During the Plan Risk Management process your team has come up with 434 risks and 16 major causes of those risks. The project is the last of a series of project which the team has worked on together. The sponsor is very supportive and a lot of time was invested in making sure he project was completed and signed off by all key stakeholders. During project planning, the team cannot come up with an effective way to mitigate or insure against a risk. It is not work that can be outsourced, nor can it be deleted. What would be the BEST solution?

1. Accept the risk.
2. Continue to investigate ways to mitigate the risk.
3. Look for ways to avoid the risk.
4. Look for ways to transfer the risk.

Q5. On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile projects. This type of scheduling relies on:

1. A schedule that was developed previously for the development of the project increments.
2. Discretionary dependencies that cannot be changed by the project team.
3. Skills of the project manager rather than the skills of the team.
4. A backlog or intermediate queue of work to be done.

Q6. Cost performance measurement is BEST done through which of the following?

1. Asking for a percent complete form each team member and reporting that in the monthly progress report
2. Calculating earned value and using the indexes and other calculations to report past performance and forecast future performance
3. Using the 50/50 rule and making sure the life cycle cost is less than the project cost
4. Focusing on the amount expended last month and what will be expended the following month

Q7. Julia is currently assessing her project stakeholders’ engagement levels. During this exercise, she finds she also needs to document an escalation process, which will come in handy in the future. Where does she need to document the project’s escalation process?

1. Communications management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan
3. Either the stakeholder engagement plan or the communications management plan
4. Both the stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan

Q8. Three years back, your organization awarded a fixed price contract to a reputable local contractor to construct a new airport terminal in the city. A few days back, you received a change request from the contractor requesting to adjust the contract’s price. The contractor is claiming that as a result of the recent national recession, the prices of raw materials have gone up and he cannot complete the rest of the project at the contract price. Is the contactor’s request legitimate?

1. Yes, you cannot penalize the contactor for price escalations due to force majeure.
2. Yes, unless there is no Economic Price Adjustment provision in the contract.
3. No, the price of the contract is fixed and cannot be changed.
4. No, the price hike due to recession must be adjusted against the contractor’s profit.

Q9. Which of the following BEST describes how a work breakdown structure can be used to determine resources?

1. The WBS breaks the project into one-person activities
2. The small work packages that the WBS provides make it easier to determine what expertise is needed.
3. It lists the names of the resources to be used.
4. It enables management to list the resource hierarchy.

Q10. If a project manager focuses on ensuring that the project satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken, the project manager is involved in:

1. Cost management
2. Time management
3. Quality management
4. Scope management